My comments: #1: It's not "If you didn't want..." , but I hear " He didn't want be second..." The odd thing is that I couldn't detect any "to" after "want". #2: "Cause he's prolly

American-English was British-English, except that it was altered significantly by all of the various influences (immigrants/languages from other countries) that learned to speak it in America. Everyone in the UK knows how to communicate in English

when do we  exactly use the pronunciation dee or daa for the article "the"? ( daa ) is the British pronunciation. ( dee ) is the American pronunciation. But I don't think it sounds like a ( d ) but az ( Th ).

hmmm actually sometimes this -ize or -ise confused me damn alot!! like a confusion Of apologISE or apologIZE !!!anybody got a tip ?? If I may add something to this disccusion. I have frequently read articles written by Britons who use -ize, just

The English classes in East Asia traditionally have placed very little emphasis on listening and speaking skills. One consequence of this has been that these students take the TOEFL test and get a good score. Then they go to an American university

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A more interesting question, to my mind, is: how does ... particularly in connected speech, where assimilation is a major factor. Connected speech works just fine. Most people often elide some or all articles ('a', 'an',

Skitt filted: Hah! Just remembered! Weren't they also called zoris? Gosh ... allowed a day or so to answer each question ... "Zori" is the Japanese term for such footwear, adapted into English as a brand name...I have a pair of the

...for some value of "the literature." See http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001133.html#more, about halfway down in the discussion of the "Retart Zone". The entire article, both parts, is well worth reading.

Souping up? Except that's not at all what the announcer meant. Anyway, there's plenty of websites discussing the word. The most accepted spelling seems to be 'zhuzh', which reasonably well captures the pronunciation. Aha, yes,